Why the ending was disappointing
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ChefC — 12 years ago(June 10, 2013 02:49 AM)
I agree Rice shouldn't have escaped unharmed.
Although I think they attempted to explain how he got back faster by implying Shelton had spent some time waiting out traffic/random searches inside a car park.
He encounters a road block and enters a car park to avoid it. Then you see him exiting the car park and there is no longer traffic.Gone too soon:
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casinada27 — 12 years ago(July 30, 2013 11:08 PM)
And that's exactly why it seems so dissapointing! J.F.'s character never seemed to assume resposibility, never acknowledged that the system was wrong or broken, never learned the lesson Clyde was trying to teach. Wich kinda sucks.
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iroquoisjoe — 12 years ago(July 31, 2013 04:01 AM)
J.F.'s character never seemed to assume resposibility, never acknowledged that the system was wrong or broken, never learned
you clearly didn't watch the movie carefully. I mean he only said it out loud while looking at the old crime scene photos.
Jamie Foxx's character even gave Clyde the chance to do the right thingto stop killing innocent people. Murdering innocent people is much worse.
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kjhuang17 — 11 years ago(May 07, 2014 12:47 AM)
He was killing people with impunity even after being locked away showing that the justice system was weak.
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mauness — 13 years ago(June 21, 2012 01:18 AM)
It was the part when the girl that works under Jamie Foxx said, "I love what I do, but I want to make sure that I gave up those things [in life] for more than just a high conviction rate." And Jamie Foxx's character says nothing. That kind of says it all. I always feel that people can always justify crappy behaviour.
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toonhaze — 13 years ago(October 27, 2012 09:02 AM)
That is the beauty of the games like Mass Effect. You don't have this corny one-way plot. You are almost in total control of how the story will end. I look forward for better graphics in games.
If I should decide how the movie should have ended, Clyde should have blown up the major and everyone else, killed Nick's wife and daughter. Afterwards Nick should have killed Clyde in rage and have commited suicide. Really, alot of you might disagree I am sure but that would be a twisted end with a bitter taste in your mouth.
Right now I feel like the entire movie is pointless because Clyde didn't truly succeed in "attacking the hub of all power" after going through all of the hard work. Anticlimax. -
StefL — 13 years ago(November 13, 2012 01:47 AM)
I was throughly disappointed as well, but more so about how the film makers created a "too simple" solution to how Clyde was achieveing his actions outside the prison. The whole plot with him having dug a tunnel into the prison before being sent there simply has too many flaws:
- He could have been placed in a different prison
- How the H-LL would prison management not notice the tunnel?!
- Coming and going without it ever getting found out he wasn't in the cell when he wasn't
I was personally convinced that for the things he hadn't already prepared when he got arrested, he had an accomplish. I was actually seriously starting to think Sarah was his accomplish, and that we would eventually learn what reasons she had for that. So I have to tell you I was surprised when she got blown to smithereens. A plot with an accomplish would have felt a lot more satisfactory for me, the whole tunnel thing smelled too much of super hero/super powers.
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ryder_78 — 13 years ago(November 14, 2012 12:16 AM)
He somehow had to die after the mess he had created, though he died in rather unspectacular fashion. Yes, he died too easily in the end without much drama and adrenaline-filled fightback. Such a waste for an otherwise excellent film. The director obviously ran out of ideas on how to get him killed.
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d_green_maverick — 13 years ago(January 02, 2013 06:44 AM)
I agree. great movie only turned into a massive fail in the last 5 minutes of the film. the ending is it
s complete undoing. I dont mind Geralds character dying in the end, but the way he died in such a silly fashion is just too stupid to be simply ignored. also, hated Jamies arrogant character outsmarting a military tactician that simply. leaving a bomb briefcase in a city hall is not complicated and more amateurish. what were they thinking. -
cameursault — 13 years ago(January 04, 2013 05:42 PM)
I personally don't mind the leap of logic required for tunnel under the prison - especially when we read stories every few months about the Taliban springing a prisoner break by digging a tunnel into a high security military prison (see gq from 9/2012).
But, the ending required too much of a suspension of disbelief and ruined the film for me. The story went to great lengths to show how meticulously planned Clyde's scheme was. Each and every time he clearly out smarted everyone and was always 3 steps ahead of everyone else, leaving little to chance. Then, somehow, when it comes to the execution of the final and most important part of his plan, he leaves everything to chance!! It's as if someone else wrote the final 5% and Clyde became a bumbling idiot who didn't know what he was doing.
As others have pointed out, the ending seemed to exist solely do the audience could leave happy - regardless of believability based on everything the movie established/developed up until that point (I.e. accepting tee absurdities the movie relied upon, but did so in a consistent manner, but then creating an inconsistent ending). I felt the same way with the ending in Collateral - also a Foxx movie.
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